What Changed Yesterday

מה השתנה אתמול What Changed Yesterday Virtual performance, Festival Manofim 2020. Curator: Moran Solomarsky. Walking tour, Hamiffal 2020. A virtual tour that merges two territories at the same time: Jerusalem and South America. Jais is a new immigrant in Israel who in his artistic activity focuses on collective agency. In this tour, which follows a walking path across West Jerusalem, …

Water My Plant

Water my plant With Denise Lara Margules. Mestizo Arts Festival (Belgium), 2017 Festival LODO (Buenos Aires), 2018 Five cultural institutions from Belgium were matched to five others from Argentina, through exchanging scale models of their buildings. The initiative gave way to experimental collaboration attempts between the organisations. The narration of the process, through context-specific multimedia and performative works, exposed institutional …

Presents to where it’s at

Presents to where it’s at HaMiffal (Jerusalem), 2017 Project in residency at Hamiffal, artist-run cultural space in Jerusalem. Anecdotes from managers of artist-run spaces around the world are collected, illustrated in wrapping paper, presented at the center’s co-working table and finally given as presents to the host collective during a open talk about collective art initiatives in South America.

Love will tear us apart

Love will tear us apart Dir. Maia Minovich, Club Cultural Matienzo, 2016 The results of an online survey about love form the base material of a three-piece band of poetry, music and live visuals.

The Pink Tent

Carpa Rosada (The Pink Tent) With Marcos Perearnau, Alejandro López, Matías Laje & Manuel Mensa). «Se Alquila/Estado» at Centro Cultural Juan de Salazar (Asunción, Paraguay), 2016. «Carpa Rosada», Matienschön (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2015. A context-specific installation that is presented as a National Institution and that hosts multimedia works and a program of activities. It aims to bring national history to …

Emergencia del deseo

Emergencia del deseo Dir. Belén Charpentier, El Porvenir Festival, 2015 Live data visualizations for Belén Charpentier’s relational performance. The audience, sitting in the stage, decide what they should work on together after the play is over; the decision-making process is followed on the screens. Participatory proposal in which the audience is involved in the production of a collective, agreed desire …

Day one

Día uno (Day one) With Luz Peuscovich, Sergio Fasani, Pablo Jais, Juan Manuel Aranovich, Morbo y Mambo.PANORAMICA Festival, Buenos Aires, 2013 360 digital visuals mixed with analog visuals from a rotating overhead projector, plus live music. The real-time audiovisual performance told the story of a fire on communal houses that gives way to a new dawn. The collective project aimed …

Emperatriz IV

Emperatriz IV By Lolo y Lauti Installations: Agustín Jais. With Sergio Fasani & Florencia Henke CETC-Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, 2013 Stage design and realization for Lolo y Lauti’s performative installation. A walk in the shape of a fertility ritual: the audience in groups of 12, each accompanied by an usherette, was guided in the dark through 4 installations, from laying …

Rupture & Reconciliation

Rupture & Reconciliation Performance feat. Paula Baró & Darío Graschinsky Club Cultural Matienzo, 2012   Reading of a poem among video screens and performative actions.     I. fruto de la tierra a su tiempo bajando al mar en ruedas ajenas se hace más lento la primera siembra se apresura se pone en pie en casas ajenas a la espesura …